Dr Spyros Foteinis is a chartered (Technical Chamber of Greece) Environmental Engineer working at the interface of environmental sustainability and climate change, with expertise in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon dioxide removal (CDR), circular economy, and water and renewable energy. He has nearly two decades of progressive experience in academia and industry; in the latter working as a senior engineer in the water and renewable energy sector where, among others, was involved in several industrial projects that were valued well over €100M.

His research background includes working in large consortium-based research projects and being a principal and co-investigator in several of them, while he has been associated with several institutions such as The University of Cyprus, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Southern California, and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa). Since 2020, he works at Heriot-Watt University, focusing both on teaching and research of the environmental sustainability of engineering systems including different CDR approaches such as ocean liming, (coastal) enhanced weathering, and electrochemical splitting of waste desalination brines for alkalinity generation.

Spyros currently contributes to the ENSIGN project by examining engineering and particularly environmental aspects of thermal energy storage and avenues to improve the environmental sustainability of future electricity networks thus underpinning decarbonisation and a faster transition to net-zero.